Climate extremes are driving
humanitarian crises at a time when the humanitarian system faces severe
financial constraints. In 2024, extreme weather events were the primary driver
of acute food insecurity for 96.1 million people in 18 countries, a fourfold
increase from 23.5 million people in 8 countries in 2021, while disasters
triggered 45.8 million new internal displacements, the highest figure on
record. Reduced humanitarian funding in 2024 forced operations to scale back,
with the situation deteriorating further in 2025 as funding reductions severely
undermined the capacity to deliver life-saving assistance.

The Humanitarian Reset Roadmap
envisions a humanitarian system that is locally led and globally supported,
rooted in communities and driven by greatest need. The Reset also committed
IASC to uphold principles, defend humanitarian space, and put protection —
especially of women and girls — at the center. By reducing duplication and
bureaucracy, ending turf wars, and transitioning to locally led response, we will
deliver faster, fairer, and more accountable humanitarian action.

Enabling this Reset
through innovation, broader financing, and streamlined systems, it was
recognized the need to bring together scaled up anticipatory action and a
green humanitarian reset ready for the climate challenges ahead [Action Item
25].

As climate extremes
disproportionately affect those with the least capacity to adapt and recover
specifically in fragile settings, the humanitarian system needs to become as anticipatory
as possible, to provide life-saving assistance that supports community climate
resilience, and to reduce the system’s environmental footprint. 

This session, convened by the IASC
Climate Crisis Sub-Group, welcomes the participation of humanitarian actors and
partners engaged in different initiatives and partnerships (Anticipatory Action
Task Force, Climate and Environment Charter Secretariat, Cluster focal points
on Localization, Donor Greening Group, etc.).

Building on ongoing discussions, this
session focuses on discussing concrete recommendations to scale anticipatory
action, reduce our climate and environmental impact, be climate risk aware and
ready through adaptation and resilience building. The discussion will highlight
actions that are both within our control and can be fostered in the context of
limited resources through Action Item 25 of the humanitarian reset.